Embassy wife
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
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9780374280345, 0374280347
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
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366 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780374280345, 0374280347

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"Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems she encounters: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s legal counsel but a secret agent in the CIA. The consummate embassy wife, she takes the newest trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing. Amanda arrives in Namibia mere weeks after giving up her Silicon Valley job so her husband, Mark, can have his family close by as he works on his Fulbright project. But once they’re settled in the sub-Saharan desert, Amanda sees clearly that Mark, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier, has other reasons for returning. Back in the safety of home, the marriage had seemed solid; in the glaring heat of the Kalahari, it feels tenuous. And the situation grows even more fraught when their daughter becomes involved in an international conflict and their own government won’t stand up for her. How far will Amanda go to keep her family intact? How much corruption can Persephone ignore? And what, exactly, does it mean to be an American abroad when you’re not sure you understand your country anymore? Propulsive and provocative, Embassy Wife asks what it means to be a human in this world, even as it helps us laugh in the face of our own absurd, seemingly impossible states of affairs." --,Book jacket.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Crouch, K. (2021). Embassy wife (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Crouch, Katie. 2021. Embassy Wife. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Crouch, Katie. Embassy Wife New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Crouch, K. (2021). Embassy wife. First edn. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Crouch, Katie. Embassy Wife First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

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